English - Writer | July 6, 1952 -
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
Hilary Mantel
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Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
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A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
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